By day, Dirk Rash works on some of the largest and most luxurious houses in Orange County, Calif. A carpenter by trade, he also interprets architects plans, frames walls, lays foundation and cuts roofs. His clients are homeowners with the substantial resources to have their sometimes extravagant dreams brought to life.

For example, theres the $100 million home Rash helped build in Irvine, Calif., with 37,000 square feet of space and separate houses for the kids and for the gardener. And the house with 14 staircases in the cliffs above Pacific Coast Highway in south Laguna Beach, Calif.

Ive been building here for 45 years, Rash said. I started from scratch.

But at night and on the weekends, Rash works on his own more modest home in Fountain Valley, Calif. Inside the circa-1965 ranch-style house, he has re-created an entirely different era.

He scours flea markets and fairs on weekends, repurposes wood from the high-end remodels he works on and tells family and friends to keep an eye out for pieces that might fit with his homes American Arts and Crafts and Mission-style dcor.

What he cant find at flea markets, Rash creates, sometimes so convincingly that its hard to tell the difference between authentic antiques and the copies hes crafted. He gathers ideas by poring through books on builders, history and architecture and from tours of Arts and Crafts houses like the Gamble House in Pasadena, Calif., designed by architects Charles and Henry Greene in 1908.

For example, the idea to use ebony pegs in the bathroom cabinets came from photos of another Greene and Greene house, the William Randolph Thorsen House in Berkeley, Calif. The bathroom also has a beautiful Asian-influenced design, including a folding screen with a green-and-white landscape scene and a long wooden bench bought from a Chinese couple at the Long Beach, Calif., swap meet.

Greene and Greene copied the Chinese in a lot of their stuff, Rash said. They werent above plagiarizing, either. If they can do it, I can do it, he added with a smile.

Rash designed the stained-glass doors in the master bedroom in the style of Frank Lloyd Wright. They let in a golden afternoon light accented with green and amber brown.

Next to the doors is the piece hes perhaps most proud of. His son-in-law had spotted a large wooden item at a thrift store in Santa Monica, Calif., that was likely once the back of a dining-room buffet. It was carved with long-stem irises in the style of a much-earlier era. Rash turned it into the mantel over the bedroom fireplace, added wood on either side and carved it with long-stem irises to match, down to the downward folds of the petals.

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Manhattan

A Bronx teen was nabbed with more than 400 decks of heroin at the Port Authority Bus Terminal, law-enforcement sources said.

Naheem Glenn, 17, was loitering at the terminal Thursday when PAPD cops approached him, the sources said.

He couldnt provide proper identification and allegedly told the officers, Im not doing time, before screaming an obscenity at them. The cops then patted him down.

In addition to heroin, Glenn allegedly had pot in his possession.

He was charged with possession of narcotics.

Cops seized more than 10,000 bottles of counterfeit perfume from a bodega near Times Square.

Barua Suprakash, 26, of the Bronx, and Uddin Mohd, 51, of Queens, were both charged with trademark counterfeiting.

They were caught Wednesday after local merchants complained to cops.

In addition to the bogus scents, the two men also were accused of selling counterfeit makeup.

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Experimenting with Flatline decks
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Yu-Gi-Oh! Top Underrated Decks With the Best Potential!
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Gainesville, GA (PRWEB) April 30, 2014

JM Martin Construction in Mabank, Texas, has been building, installing, and remodeling docks for 10 years. When a customer came to JM Martin Construction about refurbishing an 8 year old wooden dock, selecting AridDek Aluminum Decking for the walking surface was an easy choice because of its low-maintenance and durability.

Even after years of meticulous routine maintenance to a standard wooden dock by the owner, the decking surface still could not endure the aquatic surroundings.

Even with routine maintenance the wood on the dock did not withstand the marine environment, said Derek Holland of JM Martin Construction. Replacing the rotted wood on the dock with AridDek was a simple solution. The dock owner loves AridDek because of its low-maintenance qualities and durability.

AridDek Aluminum Decking creates a low-maintenance and highly durable walking surface on any dock. With AridDek Decking there is no time or money spent sanding, painting, staining, or sealing. AridDek reduces routine upkeep while also remaining dependable over time.

One of the many advantages of aluminum decking is its longevity. AridDek is impervious to insects, decay, rot, and will not rust or experience material degradation from weathering.

Whether it comes to building a dock or refurbishing an existing one, AridDek is a cost-effective answer to dock decking materials. AridDek Aluminum Decking provides dock owners with a low-maintenance and durable aluminum dock walking surface which makes it ideal for marine and boat dock applications.

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Spurs fans all across San Antonio are gearing up for the big game Wednesday night, but for one fan on the city's south side, everyday is a black and silver celebration.

Mary Gutierrez is the proud owner of "Hair Shack." Located right off Pleasanton Road on the city's south side, the San Antonio barbershop has a flair for the silver and black.

It all started with one wall, and grew from there.

"My customers started bringing me stuff like all these big posters, and a couple of the jerseys, hats, as they came in the added to the collection," said Gutierrez.

Her shop is now decked out in Spurs memorabilia, and she even names her popular hair cuts right after some of her favorite players...

"We do have the fades like the Tony Parker like a zero one"

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Boston, MA (PRWEB) April 30, 2014

The National Bridge Preservation Partnership Conference (NBPPC) recently hosted their annual meetings in Orlando, Florida. Hundreds of engineers from state DOTs and private consulting firms and suppliers attended the conference to share new technologies and materials relevant to bridge maintenance and preservation, and to discuss and improve current best practices for bridge preservation. Infrasense president Dr. Kenneth Maser presented a technical paper entitled "Bridge Deck Preservation using High Speed Subsurface Scanning", which outlines some high speed nondestructive technologies that can help agencies in their bridge deck preservation efforts.

The presentation focused on the importance of accurate condition information in the bridge deck maintenance process, and how some agencies are using high speed techniques such as Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) and Infrared Thermography (IR) to obtain this information efficiently. Dr. Maser's presentation described these technologies and how they are implemented for network-level bridge deck evaluations, using Infrasense projects in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Montana, and Michigan to illustrate how some states are already using these technologies to help "keep the good decks good".

Infrasense has performed project-level and network-level GPR and IR bridge deck surveys. The results yield a quantity of deteriorated area that is used for accurate and cost-efficient rehabilitation planning. For network-level surveys, Infrasense maximizes its efficiency by surveying a large number of decks with its vehicle-based system (up to 30 decks per day). After completing the data collection, a multi-phase analysis is carried out. First, a quick and simple preliminary (Level 1) bridge deck analysis identifies decks in good condition and requiring no further attention. Those found to have more significant deterioration levels are mapped in detail (Level 2), providing data to accurately plan, program, and budget maintenance and rehabilitation. Over the past year, Infrasense has carried out bridge deck scanning projects in Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, and Wisconsin, covering over 200 structures.

Infrasense also uses GPR to provide continuous, accurate pavement thickness data to its clients. The determination of pavement layer thickness is currently the most common highway application of GPR technology because it requires no lane closures and provides a timely and cost-effective means of collecting continuous thickness data. This data may be used for network-level pavement management, project-level rehabilitation design, or quality assurance of newly constructed pavements. GPR pavement thickness testing is an ideal complement to Falling Weight Deflectometer (FWD) testing, especially when as-built records are inaccurate, outdated, or unavailable, and coring at every FWD location is not feasible. Infrasense surveys have covered over 10,000 lane miles of pavement, with projects sizes ranging from a few city blocks in Providence, Rhode Island, to 3,500 miles in Oklahoma for the state Department of Transportation. Most recently, Infrasense completed a GPR pavement thickness evaluation of over 1500 lane-miles of county roads throughout North Dakota. Data collection for this project was carried out in under two weeks.

Since 1987, Infrasense, Inc. has applied the most current technologies to the most difficult challenges in subsurface scanning. Infrasenses engineers are able to nondestructively extract critical information from a diverse range of structures. The firm has conducted research to advance the field of subsurface detection, while also providing valuable information to clients across the country. Learn more about Infrasense, Inc. and its services at http://www.infrasense.com.

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